The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.